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Featured Investment 22 Jan 2026 · 8 min read

How we raised five million without warm intros (mostly)

The standard fundraising advice — "warm intros only, never cold-email an investor" — was written by people who already had the network. We did not have the network. Here is what worked.

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Investment · 8 Jan 2026

Inside the Moonlabs data room

The single most common reason a UK seed round falls over in diligence is a half-built data room. Here is the exact structure we now use, with the files that matter and the ones investors quietly skip.

Louis O'Connell-Bristow 7 min

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